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Watercress Salad with Avocado and Broiled Pineapple
Happy Mother’s Day!! This is a recipe for my mother and also for anyone else who reads this blog in Hawaii (where I grew up). I have made this fabulous salad recipe, from Gran Cocina Latina: The Food...
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Week 2 at Ranfurly Farm: Potatoes, Irrigation, Etc.!
Wow, what a busy week here at the farm! We transplanted about two rows of onions and shallots. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a lot to you but the rows are about 150′ long and 4′ wide so that is...
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Pistachio Financiers with Rhubarb and Sour Cherry Compote (Gluten-Free)
I am very pleased with this dessert. It is a tiny, tender, pale green cake paired with a tart, floral, pink compote. One of the many things that I love about financiers (and compotes actually) is...
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Bengal Red Lentil Dal (to defeat seasonal allergies)
It’s spring time! It’s BBQ time! It’s allergy time! Today we will be addressing the third and least glamourous aspect of the current season. I will not go into the horrific details of my seasonal...
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Raw Asparagus Salad/ Asparagus, Avocado and Goat Cheese Open-Faced Sandwich
Recipes for raw asparagus salad have been catching my eye lately….Raw Asparagus and Quinoa Salad on My Darling Lemon Thyme, Asparagus Mint Slaw on Saveur and sooooo many recipes for raw shaved...
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Everyday Brown Sourdough Bread
I know that baking season is over. It has been HOT for a few days in NYC already. However, I feel like I am finally hitting my stride with my sourdough project and so I am going to share one more...
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Raspberry Rhubarb and Almond Tart (Gluten-free or not)
I’m sorry that this post is coming so late in rhubarb season. I spent a long time testing different versions of this tart before posting it. In fact, I have made four versions in the same number of...
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Feeding the Masses of Miniature Spectacle Makers!
Artwork by Erica Harris Lately, I have been very focused on helping with the 10th International Toy Theater Festival. This festival inspired me to begin making my own puppet shows in the 90s, and it...
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Salmon Marinated in Spiced Yogurt (grilled or baked) with Rhubarb Chutney
I’ve been having a big craving for spicy, hot food. We’ve been eating lots of spicy chickpea pancakes and bhel puri with very spicy green chutney. This salmon dish does not have to be super hot, but...
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Cooling Kohlrabi and Apple Salad
This crunchy salad is dressed with yogurt, mint and tangy Middle Eastern seasonings. There is something very familiar about this salad, but it took me a while to place it. I have mentioned before that...
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Little Almond Cakes with Fresh Raspberries (Gluten-Free)
Hmmmm. It is really not baking weather anymore here in NYC, but maybe this recipe will be just the thing for someone who lives far, far away from here. Clafoutis and Financiers are pretty much my two...
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Apricot Marzipan Tart (gluten-free or not)
This recipe was inspired by a recipe from the Estonian cookbook, Sepamaa Talu köök Osa 2 by Anni Arno. Marzipan is very popular in Estonia. You can buy delicious bars of Estonian made marzipan at...
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Fresh Nectarine Tart with a Hazelnut Crust and Rose Glaze
I have been trying to make this tart all summer. I have been buying four nectarines every week since they became available two months ago. I buy them hard and ripen them in a brown paper bag. With...
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Blueberry Lemon Tart with a Coconut Crust ( gluten-free and vegan)
I have been trying to create a coconut, lemon and blueberry dessert for a while now. This may seem like an odd combination of flavours since blueberries and coconut do not grow in the same climate,...
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Coconut Chia Seed Pudding
Last summer I posted a recipe for chia seed pudding with figs and blackberries. I expected to eat nothing but chia seed pudding for breakfast all year-long, because it is so delicious and healthful,...
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Chilled Avocado Soup/ Last Minute Cold Soup Roundup
The weather has been a weirdly beautiful this August in NYC. We only had a few weeks of unbearable heat and humidity (back in July). August has been sunny and not too hot and only occasionally a...
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Eastern Tennessee Harvest- Succotash
When I was in the fourth grade, I found a recipe for succotash in the recipe section of the local newspaper. It caught my fancy, and my mother agreed to help me make it. Succotash is corn and lima...
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Fried Ripe Tomatoes (Gluten-free or not)
Fried Ripe Tomatoes are a cousin to classic fried green tomatoes. Green tomatoes fry up well because they are still a bit hard. You can dredge them in batter or cornmeal, throw them into hot oil and...
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Mystery Squash Gratin/ Nolichuckey Bluffs B and B
I mentioned in the Succotash post, that my husband and I visited family and went camping in Eastern Tennessee recently. Well, we also stayed at a wonderful Bed and Breakfast. Our camping trip was...
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Smokey Buttermilk Dressing for Crisp Romaine Salad
In the summer, my girlfriends and I are fairly regular customers at Flatbush Farm and Bar(n). They have great cocktails (I recommend The Garden Snake and also the Sidecar). They have Lem (an awesome...
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